Civil Societies and Social Movements

<p>This volume examines and contributes to debates surrounding social capital social movements and the role of civil society in emerging forms of governance. </p><p>The authors adopt a broad range of research approaches from testing hypotheses drawn from rationale choice theory against available statistics on associations to ethnographic study of emerging attempts at participant / deliberative democracy. Divided into three clear sections focusing on the following core aspects of civil society: </p><p>• the position of civic organizations between state and society in emerging forms of governance</p><p>• the geographical scales of social movement mobilizations and actions from the local to the global</p><p>• the patterns of public trust and civic engagement that falls under the rubric of social capital.</p><p>The book draws on case studies from a wide range of countries including: Russia Ukraine Britain Greece Spain Germany Argentina and new Asian democracies. </p><p>Presenting current research on the key dimensions of civil society <em>Civil Societies and Social Movements </em>will appeal to those researching and studying in the fields of political science sociology and social policy.</p>